"Spice Up Your Life" was the first
single to be released from the then upcoming album "Spiceworld",
released on 13th October 1997. The single was a big hit
worldwide, in the US it went gold (over 500,000 copies
sold), and in the UK it went platinum, selling 821,100
copies in total. The single was originally due to be
released a week earlier, but Elton John's "Candle In
The Wind" and its phenomenal success forced the
Spice Girls put the single back a week, in order to have
a better chance to get to #1. When released, with no
great surprise, the single knocked Elton John off of the
top, with sales of 321,000 in its first week, although it
only spent one week on the top spot - the first Spice
Girls single to do so. "Spice Up Your Life" was
the perfect launch-pad for "Spiceworld",
and it spent 15 weeks inside the UK Top 75, becoming the
46th best selling single of the 1990s.

Note:
For an unknown reason, the back cover of this CD only
lists the first four tracks. However, the CD itself lists
all six tracks. This is probably due to an oversight at
Virgin Records USA, or a late tracklisting change.